Radioactive Waste: Politics and Technology (The Natural Environment: Problems and Management) - Hardcover

Berkhout, Frans

 
9780415054928: Radioactive Waste: Politics and Technology (The Natural Environment: Problems and Management)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415054923 ISBN 13: 9780415054928
Publisher: Routledge, 1991

Synopsis

Radioactive Waste provides a detailed historical account of the policy and practice of radwaste management in Britain, Sweden and the Federal Republic of Germany. In their differing approaches, these three countries define the parameters of civil nuclear strategy in Europe. The comparative analysis of the evolution of policy clarifies the context of political and technical decision-making. Assessing the varying degrees of influence which the public, the industry and the government exercise over these actions, Frans Berkhout applies the concept of boundaries of control', questioning the extent to which such control can be relinquished. This analysis of nuclear strategy, the politics of nuclear power and the shifting emphasis of government regulation redefines the issue of radwaste management and sets it at the centre of the current debate about power, the environment and society.

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About the Author

Frans Berkhout is Research Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit of the University of Sussex.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415054923
ISBN 13 
9780415054928
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
268

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